Sapphistn.

Brit.

/ˈsafɪst/, U.S.

/ˈsæfəst/

Forms: 1700s– Sapphist, 1800s Saphist. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Sappho , -ist suffix.

Etymology: < the name of Sappho (see Sapphic adj. and n.) + -ist suffix, after Sapphic adj. 2. Compare slightly later Sapphism n.

A woman who engages in sexual activity with other women, or who is sexually or romantically attracted to other women; = lesbian n. 2. Cf. Sapphic n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > female

tribade1585

rubster1657

lesbian1732

Tommy1773

Sapphist1789

cunt-sucker1868

cunt lapper1916

lez1929

muff-diver1930

dyke1931

lesbo1931

lezzie?1939

freak1941

lezzo1941

Lizzie1949

lesbie1966

lezzer1966

rug muncher1981

Sapphic1985

carpet muncher1992

1789 H. L. Piozzi Let. 1 Apr. in Thraliana (1942) II. 740 The Queen of France is at the Head of a Set of Monsters call'd by each other Sapphists.

1891 J. A. Symonds Probl. in Mod. Ethics vii. 126 What he [sc. Paul Moreau] says in passing about ‘paederasts, sodomites, saphists’, has to be resumed.

1894 Physician & Surgeon Dec. 552 Many of them [sc. female inverts] are saphists, but some have no actual sexual relations with others at all.

1923 V. Woolf Diary 19 Feb. (1978) II. 235 She is a pronounced Sapphist, & may..have an eye on me.

1975 M. Orr Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1977) xviii. 247 Winifred knew herself to be..a Sapphist on the prowl for a desirable jeune fille.

2001 Country Life 5 Apr. 119/2 ‘You haven't seen a dark little American girl with a wood-violet face loitering about, have you?’ enquires an ageing Sapphist.

2013 Sunday Express (Nexis) 2 June 58 Tamara, a refugee in Paris, reinvented herself as a portrait painter and Sapphist.

Derivatives

Saˈpphistic adj. somewhat rare (of a woman) attracted to, or engaging in sexual activity with, other women; lesbian. [Compare earlier Sapphic adj. 2.]

ΚΠ

c1910 ‘X. Mayne’ Intersexes viii. 246 Many of these unsexed women were similisexual—sapphistic prostitutes, or similar, in instincts and habits.

1913 J. M. Keynes Let. 23 Jan. in L. Mahood Feminism & Voluntary Action (2009) vii. 137 Margaret is more deeply entangled than ever in a Sapphistic affair.

1961 Man 61 41/1 She lives on Atiu with a woman from another island in a relationship which gives all the indications of being Sapphistic.

Saˈpphistically adv. rare as, or in the manner of, a lesbian; towards lesbianism.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adverb] > specifically of women

Sapphistically1913

1913 R. Brooke Let. 13 Dec. (1968) 547 A woman..who loved Lulu sapphistically.

2009 T. Castle in Z. Leader Movement Reconsidered iv. 82 What inspires an ambitious young poet..to impersonate at such length..a leering, half-mad, sapphistically-inclined author of books for girls?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sapphist
释义	Sapphistn. Brit. /ˈsafɪst/, U.S. /ˈsæfəst/ Forms: 1700s– Sapphist, 1800s Saphist. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Sappho , -ist suffix. Etymology: < the name of Sappho (see Sapphic adj. and n.) + -ist suffix, after Sapphic adj. 2. Compare slightly later Sapphism n. A woman who engages in sexual activity with other women, or who is sexually or romantically attracted to other women; = lesbian n. 2. Cf. Sapphic n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > female tribade1585 rubster1657 lesbian1732 Tommy1773 Sapphist1789 cunt-sucker1868 cunt lapper1916 lez1929 muff-diver1930 dyke1931 lesbo1931 lezzie?1939 freak1941 lezzo1941 Lizzie1949 lesbie1966 lezzer1966 rug muncher1981 Sapphic1985 carpet muncher1992 1789 H. L. Piozzi Let. 1 Apr. in Thraliana (1942) II. 740 The Queen of France is at the Head of a Set of Monsters call'd by each other Sapphists. 1891 J. A. Symonds Probl. in Mod. Ethics vii. 126 What he [sc. Paul Moreau] says in passing about ‘paederasts, sodomites, saphists’, has to be resumed. 1894 Physician & Surgeon Dec. 552 Many of them [sc. female inverts] are saphists, but some have no actual sexual relations with others at all. 1923 V. Woolf Diary 19 Feb. (1978) II. 235 She is a pronounced Sapphist, & may..have an eye on me. 1975 M. Orr Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1977) xviii. 247 Winifred knew herself to be..a Sapphist on the prowl for a desirable jeune fille. 2001 Country Life 5 Apr. 119/2 ‘You haven't seen a dark little American girl with a wood-violet face loitering about, have you?’ enquires an ageing Sapphist. 2013 Sunday Express (Nexis) 2 June 58 Tamara, a refugee in Paris, reinvented herself as a portrait painter and Sapphist. Derivatives Saˈpphistic adj. somewhat rare (of a woman) attracted to, or engaging in sexual activity with, other women; lesbian. [Compare earlier Sapphic adj. 2.] ΚΠ c1910 ‘X. Mayne’ Intersexes viii. 246 Many of these unsexed women were similisexual—sapphistic prostitutes, or similar, in instincts and habits. 1913 J. M. Keynes Let. 23 Jan. in L. Mahood Feminism & Voluntary Action (2009) vii. 137 Margaret is more deeply entangled than ever in a Sapphistic affair. 1961 Man 61 41/1 She lives on Atiu with a woman from another island in a relationship which gives all the indications of being Sapphistic. Saˈpphistically adv. rare as, or in the manner of, a lesbian; towards lesbianism. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adverb] > specifically of women Sapphistically1913 1913 R. Brooke Let. 13 Dec. (1968) 547 A woman..who loved Lulu sapphistically. 2009 T. Castle in Z. Leader Movement Reconsidered iv. 82 What inspires an ambitious young poet..to impersonate at such length..a leering, half-mad, sapphistically-inclined author of books for girls? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789
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